"Peter Pettigrew."Most of the senior students who heard the name felt it was kinda familiar.
But teachers who stood there turned serious. Max smiled and continued to ask him, "Could you narrate what happened 13 years ago with the Potter family?"
Peter continued to speak in a monotone voice, "Dark Lord found out where the Potter family was hiding and attacked them. He killed Lilly and James Potter, but before he was able to kill Harry Potter his spell bounced back at him killing him in the process, but Harry Potter made it out of there with just a scar."
Hearing this, everyone who was there knew that the secrets from that night will be revealed to public eye now.
Max then asked, "Then would you mind explaining how Voldemort found out where the Potter family was living?"
Lupin who heard this started to get suspicious. He didn"t understand why Max was asking Peter this question. But before he could come to any conjecture Peter started to talk.
"I was the secret keeper of the Potter family. But because I was working for the Dark Lord, I told him where they were."
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Hearing this everyone including Dumbledore was shocked. All these days everyone thought that Sirius was the traitor, but hearing this they all thought they Sirius was pitiful.
Max looked at everyone"s reaction and continued, "Then tell us about what happened between you and Sirius that year?"
Peter said in his blank monotone voice, "Sirius who got to know that I betrayed them, hunted after me throughout the city. When I had no where to go, I used a dark spell which killed a few muggles and I lost a few fingers to that spell because I couldn"t handle the magic. Then I turned into my Animagus form and went into the sewers. Everyone thought that I died that day, but I hid myself carefully."
Hearing this Lupin was close to tears for suspecting Sirius. Dumbledore was seriously pondering as to how to deal with the consequences of this confession.
Max who was satisfied with the confession loudly said, "You got that, guys?"
At this time several people entered the dinning hall from different places. The woman who was standing in front said, "Thank you, Mr. Argent for that concealing spell and catching this b.a.s.t.a.r.d. Without your help n.o.body would"ve figured out the truth."
Max simply nodded and said, "Don"t mention it, Ms. Bones." Then he turned to his right and saw another woman with a camera and a writing quill taking notes on everything. Max said to her, "Ms. Skeeter, I think The Daily Prophet is pretty interested in this, right?"
Rita Skeeter nodded and said, "Mr. Argent, I didn"t think that you"d reveal the greatest mystery that was ever hidden. The Daily Prophet is going to have a field day with this. I"m going to enjoy taking down his entire lineage with this, if they even exist." She was pretty happy with this juicy news.
Dumbledore who saw many aurors and Rita Skeeter coming out was very surprised. He asked Max, "Did you apply the concealing spell on them?"
Max said, "Yes, Professor. I wanted to world to know what he did. I could"ve killed him silently and be done with it, but this is way better."
At this time Amelia Bones said, "With his confession, and with the newspaper and everyone here as witness, I think we"ll be able to get justice for the Potter family and Sirius Black."
After exchanging some pleasantries the aurors went back. Rita Skeeter had a small chat with Max and she also went back.
**
After all that happened, the students started talk among themselves about the events that precessed. Harry was shocked, angry and sad watching all this. He didn"t exactly know what happened that night, but listening to everything that happened here, he knew that his parents" best friend betrayed them and because of him they died. He wanted to talk to Max desperately, since Max seemingly knew almost everything that happened there.
Right now all the teachers were having an intense discussion about Peter Pettigrew and Max.
Snape asked Max, "How did you know what happened that night? And why didn"t you tell us earlier?"
Max shrugged it off and turned to Dumbledore and said, "Professor Dumbledore, would you please tell them not to pry too much. This was supposed to happen, so it happened."
Dumbledore nodded hearing this and told them, "Professors, I understand that you are curious, but let this matter to rest. I"ll tell you about it when the time comes. For now, let"s just be happy that Pettigrew was caught."
**
The next morning the whole wizarding world was blown by the news about Peter being the traitor and Sirius the one being n.o.ble friend till the end.
Rita Skeeter even managed to dig up information about Sirius being thrown to Azkaban without a trial.
This news shook the wizarding world to no end. Many people started to question whether Fudge was fit to be a minister.
Cornelius Fudge who heard the news was shocked and scared. He knew they Sirius was bring held in prison without a trial, but he didn"t expect anyone to prove him innocent that too this way in front of so many people.
What he was worrying about most was Rita Skeeter exaggeration the whole scenario in the papers. So he decided to visit the smartest person he knew of to help him, and that person was the ever cunning Lucius Malfoy.
Lucius who read the paper was already expecting Fudge"s visit. Even Lucius didn"t want Sirius to be announced innocent as he"s expecting to make his son Lord Black through his wife"s side is heritage, but Sirius coming out and the possibility of him declaring Harry Potter as Lord Black wasn"t looking good for him, so he needs Sirius dead or inside prison.
Thus when Fudge visited him, he didn"t let Fudge talk at all, he directly said, "I don"t want to hear anything. Just announce that Pettigrew is innocent is until proven guilty in court, and confessions under the effect of potions should be done under supervision, as such, everything that he said it"s too be null and void."
Fudge was still skeptical about this, "What happens when he says the same thing in court?"
Lucius said in his arrogant tone, "He won"t make it and you"ll make sure that he escapes or dies before that. We don"t want these kind of things happening at times like this."
Fudge nodded. Then Lucius continued, "And make that kid who caught Pettigrew a suspect in Sirius"s escape. That"ll show him not to mess with things."
Fudge was about to nod, but he stopped because of shock when he looked up.
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